Airplanes, cars, and ships that don’t corrode are the promise of self-healing paint coatings and polymer materials. Now researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...

Scientists at Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California have developed a coating for lithium metal batteries which they say could ...

Researchers have developed a new method for safely prolonging battery life by inserting a nano-coating of boron nitride (BN) to stabilize solid electrolytes in lithium metal batteries. The team ...

Artist’s rendering of an atomically thin coating of silver and some silver atoms below the surface protecting the crystalline structure of a solid electrolyte for lithium metal batteries in ...

Lithium-metal battery anodes can store 10-fold more energy by weight than those in today’s best batteries, but they have been too unstable to be practical. Now, researchers have borrowed technology ...

In everyday life, we use many protective barriers: Sunscreen shields us from the sun, umbrellas keep us dry in the rain and oven mitts protect our hands from hot pans. Similarly, batteries need ...

Liquid electrolytes enable fast ion transport but can raise safety concerns, and lithium metal anodes—despite their high capacity—can grow dendrites that trigger short circuits and rapid failure.

Despite their potential, solid-state batteries struggle to replace lithium-ion due to manufacturing hurdles and performance ...